VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Tyler Schmidt came off the bench to score 19 points to lead Valparaiso to an 81-53 victory over Eastern Illinois on Sunday. Schmidt added three steals for the Beacons (3-2). Justus McNair scored 16 points while going 5 of 8 (4 for 6 from 3-point range). Darius DeAveiro had nine points and shot 3 for 11, including 3 for 9 from beyond the arc. Nakyel Shelton led the Panthers (1-5) in scoring, finishing with 20 points. Kooper Jacobi added 13 points and nine rebounds for Eastern Illinois. Zion Fruster had six points. Valparaiso took the lead with 5:07 remaining in the first half and did not relinquish it. The score was 35-29 at halftime, with Schmidt racking up 14 points. Valparaiso extended its lead to 66-38 during the second half, fueled by an 18-2 scoring run. McNair scored a team-high 11 points in the second half as their team closed out the win. NEXT UP Both teams play Northern Illinois next, Valparaiso at home on Wednesday and Eastern Illinois at home on Friday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Guwahati: BJP and its allies make a clean sweep of six assembly seats across Assam and Meghalaya which went to by polls. Congress party could not win a single seat. Assembly Election Results Live Updates Maharashtra Election Results Jharkhand Election Results Bypoll Election Results While in Assam, BJP has wrested minority dominated Samaguri Assembly constituency from Congress, the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) has won the by-election from the Gambegre assembly seat in Meghalaya. In the Congress bastion Mehtab Chandee Sangma wife of Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma won the seat. Sangma won the bypoll by a margin of 4,594 votes defeating her nearest rival Trinamool Congress candidate Sadhiarani M. Sangma. Mehtab Chandee secured 12,678 votes while Sadhiarani M. Sangma got 8084 votes. The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of Saleng A. Sangma, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tura seat. The BJP won two constituencies — Dholai and Behali in Assam while the party candidate Diplu Ranjan Sarmah wrested Samaguri seat against Congress heavyweight Rakibul Hussain’s son Tanzil Hussain. BJP’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) won the Bongaigaon Assembly seat. AGP’s Diptimayee Choudhury won the seat by defeating Congress candidate Brajenjit Singha with a margin of 35,164 votes. 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UPPL’s Nirmal Kumar Brahma won with a margin of 37,016 votes by defeating Bodoland Peoples Front candidate Suddho Kumar Basumatary. Choudhury was a six-time MLA from the Bongaigaon Assembly segment. AGP fielded him in the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat to fight parliamentary elections, he wrested the seat. Congress’s Rakibul Hussain has been winning Samaguri seat since 2001. Rakibul was a former minister, and he left the Samaguri seat after he was elected to Lok Sabha from Dhubri seat in the recent parliamentary polls. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in X, “We bow in gratitude to the people of Assam the NDA’s 5/5 victory in the current by-elections is a resounding testament to Assam’s unwavering support for Adarniya @narendramodi Ji’s vision of good governance and development. A special mention for Samaguri, a constituency with a 65% minority population, held by Congress for 25 years, now won by the BJP. This historic victory reaffirms people’s trust in our welfare agenda and their firm rejection of the Opposition’s divisive politics. My heartfelt thanks to the people for their steadfast support. We remain committed to building a Viksit Assam for all. A big shoutout to our dedicated Karyakartas who took our message of development to every booth!” Assembly Election Results Live Updates Maharashtra Poll Results Highlights 2024 Jharkhand Poll Results Highlights 2024 (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )

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A Peter Dutton-led government would deport non-citizens who voice rhetorical support for terror groups and demand the Australian Broadcasting Corporation avoid bias on Israel, according to a keynote speech home affairs spokesman James Paterson will deliver outlining the Coalition’s pledges. Portraying the bloody war in Gaza and Lebanon as a battle for democracy, Paterson will say Australian Jews were being held responsible for “difficult choices” Israel was forced to make in its fight against terror groups supported by Iran. Liberal frontbencher James Paterson. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen Paterson will say that a Coalition government will strengthen the laws used by police to lay charges on incitement and displaying terror symbols if they prove too difficult to enforce. “I am deeply troubled by the number of Jews who have told me they are contemplating moving to Israel because they think they may feel safer in a country under attack from three terrorist organisations and a genocidal nation state than they do in Melbourne or Sydney,” he will say in a speech to the Executive Council of the Australian Jewry’s annual general meeting in Melbourne on Sunday. “But I understand it.” The Coalition has sought to tie community unrest in Australia over Gaza to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s actions, portraying him as soft on antisemitism as Labor has gradually shifted support away from Israel through key United Nations votes and actions such as blocking the visa of a former Israeli minister, Ayelet Shaked, on character grounds. The opposition has refrained from criticising Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s military campaign even as the United Nations, European Union and International Criminal Court condemn his actions, marking the Coalition as one of the most pro-Israel centre-right parties in the Western world. Israel launched its assault on Gaza after Hamas-led terrorists stormed across the border, killed 1200 people and seized more than 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. Since then, the Israeli attack has killed nearly 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza, much of which has been laid to waste. On Friday, the Coalition released a statement saying Australia should reject the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif. As a signatory to the agreement recognising the court, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Friday Australia respected the court’s independence but did not endorse or oppose its decision or say what the government would do if any of the men set foot here. Paterson is incredulous about Australia’s decision to deny entry to Shaked, a former minister for justice who made headlines last year calling for all Gazans to be deported and the southern city of Khan Younis turned into a soccer field. Israel’s foreign ministry on Friday night posted a statement describing the decision as “deeply offensive”. “We will not – and I can’t believe I need to say this – ban former Israeli ministers from centrist governments from visiting Australia,” Paterson will say, according to a version of the speech provided to this masthead. “Nor would we – and again I can’t believe this needs to be said – arrest the democratically elected head of a friendly government for the crime of defending his country. We will never abandon our ally in international forums like the United Nations.” Paterson singled out protests on campus and reporting on public broadcasters as a focus for any future Coalition government. “We will not allow antisemitism to fester on campus unchecked. We will not allow our taxpayer-funded arts and cultural institutions to be hijacked. We will make clear we expect accurate and impartial reporting from our publicly funded broadcasters,” Paterson will say in the speech. “We will do this not only for the Jewish community but for our country. Because a country that is not safe for Jews is not safe for anyone.” Palestinian and Israeli supporters confront each other at Monash University on May 8, 2024. Credit: Justin McManus Labor had equivocated on the antisemitism outbreak, Paterson will argue, by “always” mentioning Islamophobia in the same breath as antisemitism. “There is no other form of racism we treat like this. If there is an instance of racism against Indigenous Australians, for example, no political leader says, ‘I condemn anti-Indigenous racism and anti-Asian racism.’ All forms of racism should be called out when it occurs,” he said. In the six months from October 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 figures from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry show there was a 42 per cent increase in the number of anti-Jewish incidents from the same period the year before. Reports to the Islamophobia Register Australia had risen by 1300 per cent compared with the same period the year before. Signalling there could be Coalition funding cuts to the UN agency responsible for aid for Palestinians , Paterson said no money would be given to agencies employing terrorists. Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter .

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — DJ Lagway threw two touchdown passes, Montrell Johnson ran for 127 yards and a score, and Florida upset No. 9 Mississippi 24-17 on Saturday to knock the Rebels out of College Football Playoff contention. The Gators (6-5, 4-4 Southeastern Conference), who topped LSU last week, beat ranked teams in consecutive weeks for the first time since 2008 and became bowl eligible. The late-season spurt provided another vote of confidence for coach Billy Napier, who is expected back for a fourth season. Ole Miss (8-3, 4-3), which entered the day as a 10-point favorite, lost for the first time in four games and surely will drop out of the 12-team playoff picture. The Rebels ranked ninth in the latest CFP and needed only to avoid stumbling down the stretch against Florida and lowly Mississippi State to clinch a spot in the playoff field. But coach Lane Kiffin’s team failed to score in three trips inside the red zone and dropped countless passes in perfect weather. No. 2 OHIO ST. 38, No. 5 INDIANA 15 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Will Howard passed for two touchdowns and rushed for another, TreVeyon Henderson ran for a score and No. 2 Ohio State beat previously undefeated No. 5 Indiana. All Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten, CFP No. 2) has to do now is beat Michigan at home next Saturday and it will earn a return to the Big Ten championship game for the first time since 2020 and get a rematch with No. 1 Oregon. The Ducks beat Ohio State 32-31 in a wild one back on Oct. 12. The Hoosiers (10-1, 7-1, No. 5 CFP) had their best chance to beat the Buckeyes for the first time since 1988 but were hurt by special teams mistakes and disrupted by an Ohio State defense that sacked quarterback Kurtis Rourke five times. Howard finished 22 for 26 for 201 yards. Emeka Egbuka had seven catches for 80 yards and a TD. No. 8 GEORGIA 59, UMass 21 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Carson Beck threw four touchdown passes, Nate Frazier ran for 136 yards with three scores and No. 8 Georgia overwhelmed Massachusetts as the Bulldogs tried to protect their College Football Playoff hopes. Georgia (9-2, No. 10 CFP) needed the big offense from Beck and Frazier to rescue a defense that gave up 226 rushing yards. UMass (2-9) played its first game under interim coach Shane Montgomery, the offensive coordinator who retained his play-calling duties after replacing fired coach Don Brown on Monday. Jalen John led the Minutemen with 107 rushing yards and a touchdown. Georgia extended its streak of consecutive home wins to 30, the longest active streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision. No. 10 TENNESSEE 56, UTEP 0 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nico Iamaleava threw for 209 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 10 Tennessee to a victory over UTEP. The Volunteers (9-2) overcame a sluggish start to roll up the impressive win. Both teams were scoreless in the first quarter, but Tennessee found its rhythm. Grad student receiver Bru McCoy, who hadn’t caught a touchdown pass this season, had two. Peyton Lewis also ran for two scores. Tennessee’s defensive line, which had no sacks in last week’s loss to Georgia, had three against the Miners. UTEP (2-9) struggled with two missed field goals and three turnovers. Tennessee’s offense came alive with 28 points in the second quarter. In the final four drives of the quarter, Iamaleava completed 11 of 12 passes for 146 yards and touchdowns to Squirrel White, Ethan Davis and McCoy. No. 11 MIAMI 42, WAKE FOREST 14 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward passed for 280 yards and threw two touchdowns to Jacolby George on another record-breaking day, Mishael Powell ran an interception back 76 yards for a touchdown and No. 11 Miami pulled away late to beat Wake Forest. The Hurricanes (10-1, 6-1 Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 8 College Football Playoff) can clinch a berth in the ACC title game with a win at Syracuse next weekend. Ward completed 27 of 38 passes, plus ran for a score. He broke two more single-season Miami records, both of which had been held for 40 years by Bernie Kosar — most passing yards in a season and most completions in a season. Ward now has 3,774 yards on 268 completions this season. Kosar threw for 3,642 yards on 262 completions in 1984. Demond Claiborne had a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for Wake Forest (4-7, 2-5). Claiborne also rushed for 62 yards for the Demon Deacons, and starting quarterback Hank Bachmeier was 8 of 14 passing for 86 yards and a touchdown. No. 13 SMU 33, VIRGINIA 7 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Kevin Jennings threw for a career-high 323 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another, and No. 13 SMU clinched a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game by routing Virginia. Isaiah Smith and Jared Harrison-Hunte each had two sacks to help the Mustangs (10-1, 7-0, No. 13 CFP) extend their winning streak to eight. They would earn an automatic bid into the expanded College Football Playoff by beating 11th-ranked Miami or 17th-ranked Clemson in the ACC title game on Dec. 7 in Charlotte, North Carolina. SMU had to get there first, and Jennings led the way again, bouncing back from an interception and a fumble to complete 25 of 33 passes to six different receivers, including TD tosses to Jordan Hudson and Matthew Hibner. Brashard Smith provided a little balance on offense, running for 63 yards and his 13th touchdown of the season. SMU’s defense overwhelmed UVa’s offensive line, sacking Anthony Colandrea nine times and allowing the Cavaliers (5-6, 3-4) just 173 yards. Special teams contributed, too, with Roderick Daniels Jr. returning a punt 48 yards and Collin Rogers making two field goals. No. 24 ILLINOIS 38, RUTGERS 31 PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Luke Altmyer found Pat Bryant for a catch-and-run, 40-yard touchdown pass with 4 seconds left, sending No. 24 Illinois to a wild victory over Rutgers. Illinois (8-3, 5-3 Big Ten) was down 31-30 when it sent long kicker Ethan Moczulski out for a desperation 58-yard field goal with 14 seconds to go. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano then called for a timeout right before Moczulski’s attempt was wide left and about 15 yards short. After the missed field goal was waved off by the timeout, Illinois coach Bret Bielema sent his offense back on the field. Altmyer hit Bryant on an in cut on the left side at the 22, and he continued across the field and scored untouched in a game that featured three lead changes in the final 3:07. Rutgers (6-5, 3-5) gave up a safety on the final kickoff return, throwing a ball out of bounds in the end zone as players passed it around hoping for a miracle touchdown. Altmyer was 12-of-26 passing for 249 yards and two touchdowns. Bryant finished with seven receptions for 197 yards.No. 22 St. John's, Georgia pack busy schedule with game on SundayMILWAUKEE (AP) — Isaiah Johnson scored 21 points as Portland State beat Wofford 79-74 at the Cream City Challenge in Milwaukee on Sunday. Johnson had nine rebounds for the Vikings (3-3). Jaylin Henderson scored 18 points, shooting 6 for 12, including 4 for 10 from beyond the arc. Qiant Myers finished 5 of 8 from the field to finish with 10 points, while adding six rebounds and six assists. The Terriers (2-5) were led by Dillon Bailey, who posted 20 points. Corey Tripp added 17 points, five assists and two steals for Wofford. Kyler Filewich also had 10 points and six rebounds. NEXT UP Portland State plays Saturday against Utah Tech at home, and Wofford hosts North Alabama on Sunday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

There’s an outcry over Australian government funding of think tanks. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s ego may have taken a hit but hardly its funding. Marcus Reubenstein looks at the future of Canberra’s biggest war cheerleaders. It’s hard to know where to begin with the Varghese review into federal government funding of strategic policy think tanks that ultimately recommended ‘sweeping’ changes to the way the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is run and funded. It’s not the end of ASPI, which is this country’s loudest voice in whipping up fears of war with China – despite hysterical reporting in The Australian, and it’s not the end of ASPI arguments that rely on virtually no facts. ASPI will not automatically lose its Commonwealth funding; at worst it may simply be required to justify the millions of taxpayer dollars it receives each year. Led by former prime minister John Howard, a gaggle of right-wing politicians, security hawks and China alarmists have lined up to bemoan the supposed hobbling of ASPI. One thing completely left out of the debate is the ASPI Charter, as outlined in cabinet papers from 2000, and the charter letter ASPI publishes on its own website. ASPI has strayed so far from its original charter, established under Howard, one might argue its closer to returning to what it is meant to be than Australia is to getting its AUKUS nuclear submarines. Under the leadership of its inaugural executive director, Professor Hugh White, ASPI stuck to its charter that deemed, “The purpose of the Institute would be to provide policy-relevant research and analysis to better inform Government decisions and public understanding of strategic and defence issues” and “The Institute would need to operate independently of Government and of the Defence Organisation.” White, who is no supporter of ASPI’s heavy-handed China-threat narrative, has become a pariah amongst its apparatchiks. Though he’s rarely been directly criticised for his view that the China-threat is based less on an actual threat and more on the US desire to maintain its global primacy, a number of those who’ve advanced his views have been publicly cast as mouthpieces for Beijing. In February the government commissioned Peter Varghese, the former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, to conduct an independent review into commonwealth funding of strategic policy work. The review did not just look at ASPI but also the Australian National University, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), National Security College (NSC), United States Studies Centre (USSC), Perth USAsia Centre (USAC), RAND Australia, The Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD) and the Lowy Institute. Rather than shackle these strategic think-tanks, one of Varghese’s key recommendations is for total annual funding to be increased from $40 million annually to $50 million, although the government has poured cold water on that proposal. Of the nine think tanks reviewed, ASPI is currently gobbling up $7.5 million in commonwealth funds with another $5 million coming from foreign governments, weapons makers and technology companies, whose sponsorship of ASPI is now almost double that of weapons makers. It’s a convenient way for ASPI to say, ‘look we only get four percent of funding from weapons makers’, however, its tech sponsors are all involved in providing services to the US and Australian defence and national security sectors. ASPI and its supporters are unhappy because there’s a sting in the tail. Rather than just doling out money to the loudest voice in the room, Varghese has recommended a levelling of the field by opening funding to competitive tenders. However, the government response is that it “notes this recommendation”, so there’s no immediate requirement for ASPI to specifically justify its core funding and government supply contracts. Once again, a total misrepresentation of the facts is fuelling ASPI’s narrative, the only difference is this narrative is about ASPI itself. Since its inception, over and above its core funding of $4 million per year, ASPI has quietly picked up 166 government supply contracts worth more than $40 million. Apart from being buried deep in its annual reports, ASPI is very coy when it comes to admitting how much it picks up for running workshops and seminars for the Department of Defence and other departments. Last year ASPI picked up $3.5 million in such contracts; post-Varghese there is no restriction on the continued awarding of government contracts. Its 2023-24 financial statements show that ASPI has $4.4 million in bank deposits, hardly the sign of a struggling research group. Executive director, Justin Bassi picked up a tidy $421,272.78 for his services—bearing in mind his appointment was not via an open recruitment process, rather he was installed by, then defence minister, Peter Dutton, who had sole discretion as to the appointment of the ASPI boss. In 2023-24, the US government tipped $1.4 million into ASPI’s coffers, once again there is nothing stopping Uncle Sam from stepping in to make up any shortfall from possible cuts to Australian government funding. John Howard told The Australian: “The whole purpose of establishing ASPI was to provide an alternative independent source of national security advice to the government. If the implementation of any of these recommendations threatens that, then I am against it.” Writing in the same masthead, Varghese’s view is: “The sky has not fallen, ASPI will continue to do what it does, independent thinking will remain in the control of the thinker and how well ASPI fares in the competition for funds will depend entirely on how well it does its job.” Under the new arrangements, current levels of funding for ASPI will remain unchanged until at least 1 July 2027 – more than enough time to find more money. Anticipating a loss of the 2019 election, the Morrison government increased ASPI’s core funding and then locked in $4 million annual payments for four years. Now in the fifth year, that funding has not been touched. It hardly supports the notion that the Albanese government is determined to kill off ASPI. One of the most controversial recommendations – accepted by the government – is the withdrawal of funding for ASPI’s Washington D.C. office. The official response is: “The government agrees with the review’s conclusion that influencing foreign government policy in Australia’s interests is best done through a single voice representing the full authority of the Australian Government, principally the Australian Embassy.” An editorial in The Australian misstated that, “The closure of ASPI’s Washington office at a time of great upheaval with the return of Donald Trump as president can only be seen as a crimping of our strategic flexibility.” It’s a line echoed across ASPI’s hawkish constituency, but the government has not stated its closing the Washington D.C. office, merely that it will no longer be funding it. It would be a fairly safe assumption that the ASPI sales team is right now knocking on doors in Washington, soliciting cash from the State Department, weapons makers and tech companies like Amazon, which is already an ASPI sponsor. And Amazon doesn’t just sell books and employ gig workers to deliver packages; it has a $1 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency. Writing in The Australian, current executive director Justin Bassi and his immediate predecessor Peter Jennings, supported by a pro-ASPI editorial, highlighted ASPI’s work on China research. There is no mention that the majority of its China reports are reliant on the work of junior researchers, interns, undergraduates and at least one university dropout. While ASPI has often been right to call out China, its reports have overwhelmingly been poorly researched and written, reliant on dubious source material and, at times, blatant misinformation. In a non-sensical defence of ASPI, The Australian editorial says, with the recommendation to justify its funding, “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” The Australian calls this a brave (and unfair) new world for ASPI? For years, the U.S. government, death merchants and corporate interests have been paying the piper – admission from ASPI’s biggest media benefactor that ASPI plays to the tune of foreign interests. What’s more the Varghese review and its recommendations adopted by the government will not in any way stop ASPI collecting cash to continuing playing its benefactors tunes.HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Ashlon Jackson scored a career-high 30 points and No. 14 Duke defeated No. 10 Kansas State, 73-62 on Monday, in the semifinals of the Ball Dawgs Classic. The Blue Devils (6-1) overcame an early 11-point deficit behind Jackon’s shooting hand to advance to Wednesday’s championship game against the winner of the game between No. 9 Oklahoma and DePaul. Jackson, who has scored in double figures in all six of Duke’s games, shot 12 of 19 (63.1%) from the floor, including 6 of 9 (66.7%) from 3-point range. Reigan Richardson added 16 points for the Blue Devils. Kansas State (5-1) was led by Ayoka Lee, who had 16 points. Serena Sundell scored 15 and Kennedy Taylor came off the bench to add 11 for the Wildcats. Kansas State: With her 16-point performance, Lee needs 48 points to pass Kendra Wecker (2001-05) for the Kansas State career scoring record. Wecker scored 2,333 points. Lee, the 2024-25 Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year, is averaging 15.3 points. Duke: Jackson hit her season average of 13.3 points by the 3:54 mark of the second quarter when her pull-up jumper gave her 14. The junior guard was 8 of 11 from the floor, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range, and had 20 points by halftime. With the Blue Devils trailing by six midway through the second quarter, Jackson triggered a 15-0 run with 13 of the team’s points to help Duke take a lead they’d never relinquish. Duke will face the winner of No. 9 Oklahoma-DePaul on Wednesday in the championship game, while Kansas State will face the loser in the consolation game. 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Pathstone Holdings LLC lessened its holdings in shares of Tyler Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE:TYL – Free Report ) by 0.4% during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 9,841 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 38 shares during the quarter. Pathstone Holdings LLC’s holdings in Tyler Technologies were worth $5,744,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in TYL. APG Asset Management N.V. raised its stake in Tyler Technologies by 1.4% during the 2nd quarter. APG Asset Management N.V. now owns 1,507,062 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $706,994,000 after acquiring an additional 20,842 shares in the last quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC raised its stake in shares of Tyler Technologies by 15.3% during the first quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 532,935 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $226,501,000 after purchasing an additional 70,801 shares in the last quarter. Swedbank AB acquired a new stake in Tyler Technologies in the second quarter worth about $251,390,000. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its position in Tyler Technologies by 18.3% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 424,982 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $180,622,000 after buying an additional 65,814 shares in the last quarter. Finally, International Assets Investment Management LLC increased its stake in Tyler Technologies by 252,047.5% during the 3rd quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC now owns 307,620 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $179,564,000 after buying an additional 307,498 shares during the period. 93.30% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on TYL. Evercore ISI raised shares of Tyler Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, July 26th. JMP Securities lifted their price target on Tyler Technologies from $580.00 to $700.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, October 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $627.00 price objective on shares of Tyler Technologies in a report on Friday, September 13th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on Tyler Technologies from $600.00 to $700.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Finally, BTIG Research upped their price target on shares of Tyler Technologies from $550.00 to $630.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, July 26th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Tyler Technologies currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $642.62. Tyler Technologies Stock Performance Tyler Technologies stock opened at $609.09 on Friday. Tyler Technologies, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $397.80 and a fifty-two week high of $631.43. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $594.68 and its 200-day simple moving average is $550.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.21 and a quick ratio of 1.21. The company has a market cap of $26.07 billion, a P/E ratio of 111.15, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.41 and a beta of 0.77. Tyler Technologies ( NYSE:TYL – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 23rd. The technology company reported $2.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.43 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $543.34 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $547.34 million. Tyler Technologies had a net margin of 11.39% and a return on equity of 9.79%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.66 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Tyler Technologies, Inc. will post 7.39 EPS for the current year. Insider Activity at Tyler Technologies In other news, CEO H Lynn Moore, Jr. sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $590.98, for a total value of $2,954,900.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 75,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $44,323,500. This represents a 6.25 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link . Also, CFO Brian K. Miller sold 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $624.41, for a total value of $1,561,025.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 11,950 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,461,699.50. This represents a 17.30 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 27,600 shares of company stock valued at $16,412,595. Company insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock. Tyler Technologies Company Profile ( Free Report ) Tyler Technologies, Inc provides integrated information management solutions and services for the public sector. It operates in two segments, Enterprise Software and Platform Technologies. The company offers platform and transformative technology solutions, including cybersecurity for government agencies; data and insights solutions; digital solutions that helps workers and policymakers to share, communicate, and leverage data; payments solutions, such as billing, presentment, merchant onboarding, collections, reconciliation, and disbursements; platform technologies, an application development platform that enables government workers to build solutions and applications; and outdoor recreation solutions, including campsite reservations, activity registrations, licensing sales and renewals, and real-time data for conservation and park management. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding TYL? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Tyler Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE:TYL – Free Report ). 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